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Enhance system security with cloud-native imaging solutions

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Change Healthcare Stratus Imaging Share

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The HouseCalls difference: Kim's story

Kim, a HouseCalls advanced clinician practitioner, believes a good day is when she’s helped someone. Watch the video to see her story.

 

 

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Breast density: Research for Radiologists

New research on breast density is changing the way radiologists approach mammography.

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Addressing burnout with cloud PACS solutions

Health care leaders share how cloud-native solutions can help ease risks and improve efficiency for radiologists.

 

 

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Change Healthcare Stratus Imaging Share

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Using the cloud for medical imaging

Learn how to unlock the power of cloud migration in your medical imaging.

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How Cardiology IT solutions can solve workflow issues

Learn how new reporting features within cardiology IT solutions helped one medical center build an innovative user experience and workflow.

 

 

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Enhance system security with cloud-native imaging solutions

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Five priorities improve financial performance

This E-book will help you master five fundamentals for a sound financial future.

 

 

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HouseCalls: Reach members where they are

Help manage members’ health through in-home or virtual assessments.

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Improve your radiology performance

Learn how Change Healthcare Radiology Solutions™ 14.2.1 can help your department improve diagnostic confidence.

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Access point-of-care ultrasound imaging data

Discover how centrally stored point-of-care ultrasound images can help your organization increase efficiency and improve revenue.

 

 

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Adventist West’s success through redesigning and automating UM

Discover how to leverage automation for centralized, exception-based utilization management.

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Imaging, data reporting and the cardiology user experience

How can cardiovascular imaging departments leverage user experience design to address the challenges of fragmented data?

 

 

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Five things your denial rate isn't telling you

Learn 5 ways to make changes that will prevent and remediate denied claims.

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MIPS program recommendations physicians

Traditional MIPS plans concluded in 2023. Understand MIPS reporting types and get help navigating the changes.

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Risk adjustment star ratings success

Discover 5 strategies that will help your health plan be prepared to factor risk adjustment data into Star Ratings.

 

 

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Enhance system security with cloud-native imaging solutions

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Enhance system security with cloud-native imaging solutions

Learn about the in-depth security capabilities of cloud-native imaging.

Cloud-based upgrades

Learn how cloud-based imaging solutions can speed upgrades and reduce maintenance.

Change Healthcare Stratus Imaging Share

Learn how much you could save by eliminating CD burning.

The HouseCalls difference: Kim's story

Kim, a HouseCalls advanced clinician practitioner, believes a good day is when she’s helped someone. Watch the video to see her story.

HouseCalls: Reach members where they are

Help manage members’ health through in-home or virtual assessments.

The benefits of microservice imaging architecture

Our cloud-native solutions use dynamic load balancing to optimize resource use across all applications.

Using the cloud for medical imaging

Learn how to unlock the power of cloud migration in your medical imaging.

Adventist West’s success through redesigning and automating UM

Discover how to leverage automation for centralized, exception-based utilization management.

Imaging, data reporting and the cardiology user experience

How can cardiovascular imaging departments leverage user experience design to address the challenges of fragmented data?

How Cardiology IT solutions can solve workflow issues

Learn how new reporting features within cardiology IT solutions helped one medical center build an innovative user experience and workflow.

Breast density: Research for Radiologists

New research on breast density is changing the way radiologists approach mammography.

Addressing burnout with cloud PACS solutions

Health care leaders share how cloud-native solutions can help ease risks and improve efficiency for radiologists.

Improve physician practice revenue

Learn key strategies to strengthen the financial performance of your physician practice.

Strategic planning for imaging in the cloud

Learn what health IT and imaging leaders need to do before moving their enterprise medical imaging to the cloud.

Using behavioral science to inform hemodynamics product design

Learn how behavioral science can improve the hemodynamics solution in vital ways for physicians and technicians.

Five priorities improve financial performance

This E-book will help you master five fundamentals for a sound financial future.

Migrate your enterprise imaging to the cloud

Watch our webinar on migrating your enterprise imaging to the cloud.

Promises and pitfalls: AI and clinical decision-making

Learn more about why evidence-based criteria and clinician insight are needed for informed and trustworthy decisions while leveraging AI.

Key considerations when updating provider management modules

Explore 6 key factors when updating, streamlining and coordinating provider management modules with other Medicaid functions.

Clinical Exchange Orders and Results tool

Streamline the implementation process of healthcare lab operations and enhance enrollment control with our self-service tool.

Aligning with CMS: Medicare Content Navigator and InterQual Transparency

Discover how to meet the latest regulatory requirements for Medicare Advantage plans.

Anesthesiology group improves rcm physician practices

How one anesthesiology medical group increased profitability, efficiency and stability with physician group management services from Optum.

The role of AI in enterprise imaging

Learn how AI is being used to improve imaging workflow management and help care providers collaborate more efficiently.

Understanding artificial intelligence for radiologists

Learn why implementing artificial intelligence in the radiology department shouldn't lead to panic.

Call centers and AI technology

Transform state contact centers into 24/7 problem solvers.

Five things your denial rate isn't telling you

Learn 5 ways to make changes that will prevent and remediate denied claims.

Improve your radiology performance

Learn how Change Healthcare Radiology Solutions™ 14.2.1 can help your department improve diagnostic confidence.

Doubling down on the cloud

Learn how technology is advancing imaging workforce challenges and revenue.

Understanding the benefits of single-database cardiology

Learn about our single-database cardiology solution that integrates with your EHR and VNA to help create a complete, unified cardiovascular record.

Access point-of-care ultrasound imaging data

Discover how centrally stored point-of-care ultrasound images can help your organization increase efficiency and improve revenue.

MIPS program recommendations physicians

Traditional MIPS plans concluded in 2023. Understand MIPS reporting types and get help navigating the changes.

Addressing challenges with CDI and coding

Read the success story to hear how Optum technology helped increase John Muir Health's monthly CDI case review average by 22%.

Designing cardiac training programs through innovation

Learn how we’re training the next generation of cardiac clinicians with advanced technology.

The benefits of cardiovascular structured reporting

Discover the key features of cardiovascular structured reporting that drive adoption, EHR integration and customization.

Four ways to strengthen your practice

Strategies to help provider groups maintain independence, support long-term stability and drive success.

Maximize digital mammography reading efficiency

Learn how an all-in-one workstation for mammography and radiology increased study volume and accelerated turnaround.

AI-powered study prioritization

Read our case study.

The benefits of outsourcing medical billing

Discover a step-by-step strategy for gaining administrative buy-in.

Risk adjustment star ratings success

Discover 5 strategies that will help your health plan be prepared to factor risk adjustment data into Star Ratings.

Inventory management solutions made simple

Discover inventory management solutions that guide the decision-making process for efficiency gains, better practices, cost savings and safer care delivery.

Optimizing physician reimbursement

Learn how physician groups can leverage automation and incorporate advanced analytics to help ensure they’re collecting every dollar.

Reduce risk and capture lost revenue

Learn how Change Healthcare Imaging Actionable Findings can help, solve complex care needs.

Change Healthcare Workflow Intelligence

Learn about our vendor neutral, flexible medical imaging workflow rules engine.

We follow the science and defend against bias

See how Optum follows the science where it leads, validating the research we find to uphold the clinical integrity of InterQual content.

Intelligent workflow case study

Learn how intelligent workflow can help improve efficiency and patient care.

Re-examining radiology with Optum

Explore the transformative changes happening in the field of radiology and their impact on advancing healthcare.

Explore our AI-enabled radiology portfolio

Learn how our Radiology Solutions use AI to rapidly identify relevant radiology images.

The ASAM Criteria® Navigator, 4th edition

Learn how to streamline efficiency and consistency of the utilization review process.

Hospital employed anesthesiologists and RCM

Dive deeper into the market shift transforming the modern anesthesia employment market.

Engage providers impact member outcomes

Download our infographic to learn how Optum can take the burden off payers to impact provider performance.

Cyberthreat webinar

Learn practical steps you can take to safeguard your enterprise imaging data.

Establish renewed priority on revenue loss

In volume 2 of this white paper, discover 3 strategies to improve revenue performance from proper levels of reimbursement to writing off bad debt and expanding into new service areas.

Five step InterQual evidence-based development process

The InterQual Criteria is developed through a rigorous, five-step process by our clinical development team.

Improving performance at Excel Medical Center

Empower provider success and improve member care through digital integration.

Boulder community health partners employee success

Explore how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue elevating its most critical component of success — its workforce.

4 steps to optimizing value-based care

Learn how combining these steps can help power a holistic workflow between payers and care delivery.

Optimizing UM with InterQual AutoReview

An Optum expert explains how hospital systems can transform their UM programs and drive efficiency with InterQual AutoReview.

Navigating growth in the healthcare industry

Learn how to overcome challenges and achieve scalability with your medical practice.

How AI accelerates workflows and patient cancer care

Discover the potential of AI and how it helps save thousands of lives each year.

Structured cardiovascular reporting

Learn how structured cardiovascular reporting can reduce late charges.

The AI technology transforming imaging

Learn how artificial intelligence (AI) can support patient care, improve workflows and more.

Find immediate ROI with cloud-native enterprise imaging

Learn how artificial intelligence (AI) can support patient care, improve workflows and more.

3 pillars of physician revenue cycle management

How cultivating a combination of people, processes and technology is a critical driver of RCM success.

The No Surprises Act

Get an overview of the Act with recommendations for physician practices.

Clinical exchange eprescribe self service tool speeds enrollment

Healthcare systems need new systems to better facilitate enrollment despite staffing shortfalls.

Improve medicaid risk adjustment accuracy

Explore Medicaid best practices for health plans and learn three actions to take and when to take them.

Making cardiovascular data work for the future

What can technology leaders do today to facilitate future advancements in cardiovascular data and analytics?

A single database cardiology platform that drives efficient workflow

Read our case study.

Five ways to improve your cardiovascular workflow

Learn how to improve productivity with a workflow solution that innovates in five key areas.

EPCS mandates state interactive map

Discover an interactive EPCS mandate map providers can use to track where and when mandates are happening in each U.S. state.

How to transform imaging with behavioral science

Behavioral science is being applied to unique methods of enterprise imaging product design.

Move your enterprise imaging to the cloud

Learn how to highlight the immediate cost and efficiency gains of cloud adoption.

Clinical exchange eprescribe enhances care delivery

Streamline workflow and increase accuracy with Clinical Exchange ePrescribe and Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefits.

Helping emergency services practice streamline accounting

A busy emergency services practice gets help to ensure its financial health and allow physicians more time and confidence to do their jobs.

The fight for techquity

Get ideas for how to fundamentally change your approach to building technology and incorporate techquity into your organization.

Preserving talent and enabling career growth insights

The Optum Market Performance Partnership is designed to help health systems achieve strategic, operational outcomes while preserving talent.

Emergency department performance metrics

Learn about the key metrics that should be monitored within your emergency department to improve financial performance and optimize efficiency.

Speed up the claims process with AI

Read about our Claims Automated Rules Engine (CARE).

Provider report cards help emergency medicine groups

Learn more about how provider report cards can help emergency medicine groups thrive.

Building a connected care model

People feel the disconnect of a siloed healthcare system. Get insights on how to build more holistic care through connected care models.

Value dex z codes

Optum and Palmetto experts partner in discussing how to solve genetic lab challenges in legacy solutions.

Enterprise imaging cloud strategy webinar

Learn about the differences between “cloud-based” and “cloud-native” image hosting.

"No regret" IT investments

Learn which tech investments can benefit providers most today.

Improve price transparency

Deliver a better patient experience through price transparency.

Fire department boost collections forty percent

Our case study shows how the Cincinnati Fire Department recovered missing revenue with Optum billing and collection systems.

Outsourcing medicaid eligibility enrollment

Discover how one client outsourced Medicaid eligibility and enrollment to drive patient satisfaction and higher reimbursement levels.

Navigating the pandemic

Learn how Optum revenue cycle management services helped Santa Fe Pathology Services maintain financial stability throughout the COVID-19 crisis and position the practice for growth.

Business intelligence delivers financial insights lab

Learn how BI can improve operational performance, provide access to key financial indicators and support compliance.

RCM services allow laboratory navigate difficult waters

Learn how Optum implemented comprehensive revenue cycle management procedures to help Meridian Laboratory Physicians bill for clinical pathology, increase reimbursement and support practice growth.

Key learnings for modernizing your state’s legacy system

Dr. Garry Choy, CMO, discusses the pros and cons of using automation and clinical decision support to meet today’s workforce challenges.

Improving CDI efficiency

See how Lima Memorial improved efficiency with advanced technology.

Focus on patients, not paperwork

Watch the webinar to learn actionable strategies on tackling decreased hospital margins, increased labor costs and staffing shortages.

How Optum supports value-based goals with powerful products

See how Optum’s products help hospitals succeed with value-based contracts, earning appropriate incentives and avoiding penalties.

Bassett Healthcare network blazes bold path forward

Optum helped Bassett achieve independence and financial resilience while maintaining outstanding care delivery. See how the partnership came together.

Webinar: Trends and challenges in telehealth

Explore new ways of doing business that allow you to meet shifting customer expectations, workforce challenges and emerging business goals.

Bassett Healthcare partnering insights

Tommy Ibrahim, MD, CEO of Bassett Healthcare Network, shares insights on reinventing a health system for success.

Innovative approaches to collaborate with PCPs

Understanding the challenges confronting Medicare Advantage plans and their Medical Loss Ratio.

Boulder Community Health and Optum

Optum partnership insights and strategies enable near- and long-term success for provider organizations.

Filling revenue cycle resource shortfalls

Learn how to identify and overcome common revenue cycle challenges despite current labor market issues.

Smart revenue cycle investments

These two targeted investments will strengthen your revenue performance more than deep cost cutting.

Create a best-in-class front-end revenue cycle

Learn six ways to take your operations from good to great.

Strong financial future through partnership

See how Boulder Community Health partnered with Optum to continue to successfully fund its mission.

New billing system improves financial performance

Radiology Associates of Nevada made a smooth transition to Optum as its new billing vendor. This significantly improved its financial performance.

Support risk adjustment with CDI technology

Clinical documentation integrity programs are expanding to support risk adjustment initiatives. Integrated CDI technologies are needed to support revenue and integrity.

Proactively renew dual eligibles for Medicaid

Learn how Optum uses AI, state-specific logic and robust workflows to help with proactive dual eligible Medicaid renewals.

A/R recovery services provide continuity

Provider maintains A/R revenue continuity during HIS conversion.

AI analytics demo webinar

Watch the demo to learn how our analytics platform provides custom, value-added reports with the data insights you want.

Digital front door strategy improves patient experience

Discover how a digital patient engagement strategy can provide easier access, reduce cancellations, and enhance front-end collections.

Optum wins 2023 enabling technology leadership award

Optum won the 2023 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award. 

A case study on Excel Medical Center

Using digital integration to ease administrative burdens can help you spend more time with patients and deliver positive patient outcomes.

Exploring possibilities cdi metrics

Watch the panel-style webinar with Banner Health CDI and analytics leaders to discuss business intelligence analytics and health information management.

Leveraging data-driven heat maps

The Optum network gives transparency to customized potential connections, helping boost revenue.

Strengthen ED visit-level determinations with these key elements

Learn how to strengthen your ED visit-level determinations, and identify areas for improvement.

Benefits of artificial intelligence reach the revenue cycle

The use of NLP makes the revenue cycle work smarter, not harder.

6 workforce strategies for healthcare leaders

Strengthen and inspire your healthcare workforce. Our actionable toolkit offers new strategies to reconnect with talent, simplify workflows and more.

Optimize patient access with automation

This webinar shares best practices for optimizing patient access with automation and consumer-centric technology strategies.

Using clinical intelligence for revenue cycle

Our white paper shows how investing in smart technologies, such as clinical intelligence, supports the revenue cycle from patient registration through full reimbursement.

Improve efficiency with Optum CAC and CDI 3D

See how one health system partnered with Optum to transform their coding and CDI program.

Help your bottom line through UM optimization

An efficient utilization management (UM) program is a must to deliver high-quality patient care while managing costs.

How the revenue cycle and leaders are evolving

Find out how to shift your revenue cycle left, focusing on front-end revenue cycle management (RCM) capabilities.

Denials index

Learn about the latest trends in medical claim denials and find out how to decrease them.

Maintain operational and financial viability

Read this white paper to learn strategies that can help critical access and independent hospitals remain viable in their communities.

The keys to revenue cycle transformation

Gain expert insights into strategies to decrease costs, unlock new sources of growth and improve patient experiences.

Developing a best-in-class middle revenue cycle for hospitals

Explore the six focus areas for improving performance to create a best-in-class middle revenue cycle for your hospital.

10 hurdles to reimbursement

Focus on the specific hurdles that hinder your claims and cause most of your denials. We'll walk you through how to clear each obstacle.

Choosing an accounts receivable partner

Selecting a strategic accounts receivable partner requires careful evaluation.

Reducing administrative variation with artificial intelligence

Infuse technology into your medical necessity process.

Volume 1: Better financial health and improved operations

Read the white paper for strategies on controlling fixed costs, efficiency and organizational flexibility.

Analytics answer compliant coverage identification

Using advanced analytics and rich data resources can help boost providers’ ability to screen the self-pay patient.

Community Connector helps member assessment

Optum helps health plans address member needs through screening and community-based organization (CBO) referral services.

Causes of medical necessity denials

Learn two critical indicators causing these denials, and how to account for them effectively.

Health leaders share IT transformation stories

Hear John Muir Health and Bassett Health’s observations on digital transformation, modernizing infrastructure and strategic automation.

Spend more time with members

See how prospective assessment programs can reduce administrative burden. Physicians spend less time on paperwork, so they can focus on what matters most: member care.

Decrease denials strategy

Understanding the reasons for your claim denials is the first step to preventing them from happening in the future.

Managing rising transplant costs

Rising costs of transplants and other care is becoming a common challenge. Hear what payers need to know to help manage costs while improving outcomes.

Buck denial trends

Learn about the latest national denial trends to help you avoid rework and future denials.

Transparency helps medicaid providers

See how technology can be used to reduce complexity, administrative rework and improper claims denials. 

From transformation to triumph

Read this executive summary about Optum Serve's need to stay competitive amid dynamic trends and customer demands.

Consumer centric health care research report

Examine the acceleration toward consumer-centric care with insights and perspective from healthcare leaders.

Achieving equitable care: The shift to race-neutral equations

Discover how the InterQual team facilitated the timely adoption of new industry guidance for promoting health equity in clinical practice.

Navigating the challenges of outpatient evaluation for patients with acute coronary syndrome

Learn how the InterQual level of care team tackled a content development challenge following updated societal guidelines for acute coronary syndrome.

Strategies for centering patients and staff

Learn how to help transform hospital revenue cycle operations with healthcare automation.

Interqual autoreview efficient proactive

A cloud-based solution designed to increase utilization management efficiency and review accuracy.

Transforming CDI and coding with advanced analytics

Banner Health partnered with Optum to pair AI-powered technology with advanced analytics, enabling an expanded focus on quality and risk-adjustment initiatives.

Trends for health plan quality performance

Learn how health plans can stay ahead of the curve and prepare for key trends likely to impact their quality programs in 2025 and beyond.

Utilizing patient access contact center

See how a hospital streamlined scheduling for about 700 providers and strengthened customer service for over 65,000 patient calls monthly.

The road to modernization: What’s next for your contact center?

Today’s constituents and stakeholders expect to interact with state agencies quickly, effortlessly and through their preferred communication channel.

Coding audits: Why and how to do them

Discover how regular coding audits can streamline audit and compliance efforts, boost hospital reimbursements, and improve patient financial experiences.

Rethinking the healthcare payment process

Explore ways to create a more seamless and transparent payment experience for healthcare consumers.

Automate your front office to address the staff pinch

Learn how automating appointment scheduling, eligibility verification and communications, and more eases pressure on staff.

Transforming care through payer-provider collaboration

Discover the key elements to creating a positive, mutually beneficial relationship.

Establishing trust to improve value-based care outcomes

Gain insights into how supporting providers can help increase engagement and reduce administration burden for better patient care.

Best practices utilization review

Learn best practices of utilization review to help your health system maintain clinical, compliance and revenue integrity.

Driving innovation with new revenue cycle services

One organization decreased uncompensated care, increased loyalty and patient satisfaction, and connected patients with more funding sources.

Streamline Medicaid eligibility and enrollment processes

The rise of healthcare consumerism has prompted many hospitals and health systems to rethink their patient satisfaction strategies.

Market for patient engagement webinar

View the public launch of Optum Patient Access and Engagement on demand.

Developing evidence-based tools for accessible and quality care in the substance use disorder space

Explore how evidence-based tools like The ASAM Criteria® Navigator and InterQual® Substance Use Disorders Criteria are helping payers and providers efficiently and effectively navigate the complex substance use disorder landscape today.

Enterprise transformation services

Health systems continue to face many challenges. Do you have the flexibility and focus to deliver on strategic goals or transform your business?

Rising expectations among health care consumers

Learn about the growing expectations people have for their healthcare experience and how to improve the consumer journey.

Reimagining fraud prevention

Find out how modernization of emergency relief programs can detect and prevent fraud.

Everest Group guide to selecting RCM services

Buyer’s guide helps hospital leaders evaluate and select RCM services partners with the future in mind.

Advancing dme benefits management

Learn how DME Navigator can help streamline durable medical equipment (DME) benefits management. 

Improving hospital quality and utilization

Learn how data insights helped 4 organizations transform their operations.

Middle rcm tech

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are having a major impact on improving the middle revenue cycle management (RCM) for healthcare providers.

Automating success revenue cycle transformation

Set the foundation for synchronized and connected revenue cycle management.

Making risk adjustment programs work

Learn how three care delivery organizations reduced administrative burden to spend more time with patients and improve outcomes.

Debunking revenue cycle myths: The path to financial health

Discover how partnering with a managed services partner can help improve financial operations.

Structured cardiovascular reporting

Learn how structured cardiovascular reporting can reduce late charges.

Get competitive with CDI and coding analytics

Watch the demo to learn how our analytics platform provides custom, value-added reports with the data insights you want.

How AI is delivering efficiencies for radiologists

Learn how AI solutions can boost your organization’s return on investment (ROI).

The costs and benefits of cloud-based imaging

Understand the seen and unseen costs of migrating your enterprise imaging to the cloud.

NASPO ValuePoint streamlines procurement

Streamline enrollment and admin activities with the Optum Provider Services Module, a self-service gateway for Medicaid providers and agency staff.